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Shannon Lee Dawdy

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Shannon Lee Dawdy
Born1967
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow.

Education

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Dawdy holds a PhD in anthropology and history and an MA in history from the University of Michigan, an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary and a BA in anthropology from Reed College.[1]

Research

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Dawdy is 'Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College' at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the Americas, with a special focus on New Orleans, from the colonial period to the post-Katrina present.[2] Her research has focused on the history of capitalism and informal economies (including piracy)[3] urban landscapes, human-object relations, and temporality (how people shape and experience the past, present, and future).[4] Her newest work examines rapidly changing death practices in the U.S., resulting in both a film (I Like Dirt. with co-director Daniel Zox) and a book, American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century (October 2021, Princeton). She writes for both academic and general audiences.[5]

In 2010, Dawdy was named a MacArthur Fellow.[6] She has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.[1]

Bibliography

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Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2021). American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691210643.

Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2016). Patina: A Profane Archaeology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226351193.

Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2008). Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226138411.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Shannon Lee Dawdy | Anthropology | The University of Chicago". Anthropology.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  2. ^ John Schwartz (2006-01-03). "Archaeologist in New Orleans Finds a Way to Help the Living - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  3. ^ Dawdy, Shannon Lee (2011). "Why Pirates Are Back". Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 7: 361–385. doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102510-105433.
  4. ^ "Shannon Lee Dawdy; University of Chicago". Chicago.academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  5. ^ https://shannonleedawdy.com
  6. ^ "Shannon Lee Dawdy - MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-01-16.